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VydorScope · 09-18-2011, 07:36 AM

So, I have been thinking lately of adding book reviews to one of my sites. Often when I finish a book I am thinking exactly what I would write if I had a review site and I know that most book review sites are back logged with books to review so I wonder sometimes if I could take on some of that load. I am sure if I drop a post in the writers area here saying "Looking for submissions..." I would get plenty of books to read, plus I have my own reading list already... so lack of material wont be an issue, what would be is where I would post them. I have options...

1) My primary blog is a place where I post a weekly Bible study. I kind of doubt this would be a good place as topically fiction books would not seem to fit with the intelectual Bible study I post weekly.

2) My second blog is dedicated to my current novels and has news/updates about them. I could see adding a section to that site for it since the kind of people that visit that site are the kind of people that read books, but I wonder if the site is to targeted for broadening like this.

3) I own my own dedicated server, so putting up a third new blog just for this would take only a few minutes. I have a pile of unused domain names that I could use for this. The problem here is a new site has no traffic, so reviews are less valuable.

4) I aslo run several other sites (2 forums, a photo site, and etc) but none of them are blogs, so they are out. Related, I currently do write for an extremely popular web site, but they are not a book review site and they assign me topics to write on. So that puts them out.

5) I guess I could try and volunteer at an existing review site, but they often will have rules like "you must review X books per Y days, and we will force feed you the books you review and you will like it!" So I worry that forced nature will stifle and kill the joy of writing the reviews. Plus I am in grad school so writing on someone else's schedule may not be possible.

So what think y'all? I am leaning towards #3 (and no matter which it would include posting reviews to GoodReads, and etc). Any advice?

09-18-2011, 07:36 AM	#1
VydorScope Wizard Posts: 3,418 Karma: 35207650 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: iPad	Book Review Sites So, I have been thinking lately of adding book reviews to one of my sites. Often when I finish a book I am thinking exactly what I would write if I had a review site and I know that most book review sites are back logged with books to review so I wonder sometimes if I could take on some of that load. I am sure if I drop a post in the writers area here saying "Looking for submissions..." I would get plenty of books to read, plus I have my own reading list already... so lack of material wont be an issue, what would be is where I would post them. I have options... 1) My primary blog is a place where I post a weekly Bible study. I kind of doubt this would be a good place as topically fiction books would not seem to fit with the intelectual Bible study I post weekly. 2) My second blog is dedicated to my current novels and has news/updates about them. I could see adding a section to that site for it since the kind of people that visit that site are the kind of people that read books, but I wonder if the site is to targeted for broadening like this. 3) I own my own dedicated server, so putting up a third new blog just for this would take only a few minutes. I have a pile of unused domain names that I could use for this. The problem here is a new site has no traffic, so reviews are less valuable. 4) I aslo run several other sites (2 forums, a photo site, and etc) but none of them are blogs, so they are out. Related, I currently do write for an extremely popular web site, but they are not a book review site and they assign me topics to write on. So that puts them out. 5) I guess I could try and volunteer at an existing review site, but they often will have rules like "you must review X books per Y days, and we will force feed you the books you review and you will like it!" So I worry that forced nature will stifle and kill the joy of writing the reviews. Plus I am in grad school so writing on someone else's schedule may not be possible. So what think y'all? I am leaning towards #3 (and no matter which it would include posting reviews to GoodReads, and etc). Any advice?